One such iconic warplane was the Yakovlev Yak-3—which would go on to become the mainstay of Soviet aviation during the Second World War, and influence the nation’s aircraft for decades more.

Russian aeronautical research institute TsAGI has flight tested a windowless cockpit demonstrator. The technology enables an ...

Read this pilot report about the Yak-40, a Soviet feederliner jet transport built in classically rugged Russian design. Our reporter, Herbert J. Coleman, said it was an easy aircraft to fly with ...

This time the harrying fire was from swarms of aircraft, including Yakovlev Yak-3 fighters flown by the Normandie-Niemen regiment of the Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres—the Free French Air ...

MOSCOW, November 7. /TASS/. A Yak-52 plane made a crash landing on water in the city of Samara in the middle reaches of the Volga River, its two crew members were saved, a spokesman for the Samara ...

KRASNOYARSK, September 15. /TASS/. A Yakovlev Yak-42 aircraft has landed at the airport in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk after reporting a technical malfunction, the Emergencies Ministry’s regional ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad - Yak-1b Collector Plane The Yak-1b, also know as the Yak-1 Series 127, is the pinnacle of the Yak-1 fighter design ...

His Yak-3U, manufactured in 2005 ... The late Jim Wright set the record for propeller aircraft under 6,600 pounds, flying his replica H-1 in 2002 at 304 mph. (Howard Hughes set the unlimited ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad - Yak-9T Series 1 Collector Plane Yak-9T was capable of not only engaging bombers and various ground targets ...